He was "like the brother [she] never had." When Tina Turner meets Mick Jagger, he is barely of age, she is in her twenties, four years separate them. Seniors often crystallize admiration - more experience, more confidence, a shoulder to lean on... It's a bit like this role, that the rock star had for the singer of the Rolling Stones. Especially to sharpen his dance step.
In video, Mick Jagger and Tina Turner perform "Brown Sugar" together
In the 60s - both were then in their infancy - the singer of Paint it Black invites Tina Turner to open for the British group, in the middle of the "British Tour". On stage, she radiates. Her presence, the way she moves... Mick Jagger can't believe it. A talent that he envies her, and which then pushes him to ask for her help. "Mick wanted to dance and I was a dancer, but he never gave me credit! He said it was his mother who taught him, but we worked with him in the dressing room, me and the girls, and we taught him the "pony" (a typical step of the 1960s, editor's note), told the American to the Daily Mail, in 2017, diving back into his memories.
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«My wonderful friend Tina Turner»
Died Wednesday, May 24 after a long illness, the prolific artist - a dozen albums, millions of copies sold, 8 Grammy Awards - marked the memories of his dazzling stage play. A superstar posture that she loved: she also confided to the Guardian her wish that everyone remember her as the "queen of rock'n'roll", in April 2023.
Sequins, hair in the wind and conquering posture, it is with a photo of the singer that Mick Jagger paid tribute to "[his] wonderful friend Tina Turner", on his Instagram account.
"Inspiring", "warm", "funny", "generous"... There is no shortage of adjectives to describe the one who "helped him so much when [he was] young". Especially since over the decades, they have continued their artistic path together, sharing the stage many times - the "American Tour" of the Rolling Stones in 1969, the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia in 1985, the induction ceremony of the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 ... "Terribly saddened," Mick Jagger added in his few lines that he "will never forget it." "We don't need another hero," Tina Turner sang in 1985. Indeed: it is she, the only one.
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